Explore Delaware’s trout streams: White Clay Creek and Red Clay Creek with their fly-fishing-only sections, Christina Creek, Mill Creek, Pike Creek, Wilson Run and Beaver Run, plus the stocked ponds at Tidbury Creek and Newton Pond, with public land, fishing access and river gauges.
Check before you fish. Access, stocking and regulations here come from Delaware's own data and can be out of date. Posted signs and landowners' wishes come first, and private land needs permission. The rules that apply are in the Delaware Fishing Guide: trout, and you need a valid fishing license.
Bold where the stream crosses public land; faint and dashed across private land. Gauges are measurement stations; a nearby gauge may be on a different stream.
Stream types · Delaware
Bold where the stream crosses public land
Streams are DNREC’s designated trout stream reaches, including the fly-fishing-only sections on White Clay and Red Clay creeks (4 trout a day there). Most stream access crosses private land, so respect posted property.
Streams close for stocking in late March and reopen in early April, after a youth-only day. A trout stamp is needed from the first Saturday in April through June 30 and from the first Saturday in October through November 30. Check the Fishing Guide for this year’s dates.
Highlighted banks adjoin mapped open-access public land, with a roughly 20-meter bank tolerance. Dimmed water has no adjacent open-access parcel recorded in this source. Neither determines legal entry, rights of way or permission to cross private land. Check signs, property rules and the current fishing regulations.
Access markers are source facility locations within about 800 meters of mapped water, not verified parking spaces or guaranteed entry to a particular reach. River-gauge readings describe the gauged location; a nearby gauge on another stream is shown as context.